The Folk Revival 2 Sounds of the Sixties

Tim Buckley is 21. He writes some of his songs

with Larry Beckett, who he describes as a poet

who is now starving in Venice, California.

It is unlikely that Tim Buckley is starving,

because having made a considerable name for himself in America,

he is now on the way to becoming a cult over here.

Tim Buckley's roots are in blues, country and folk music,

and his songs have a plaintive, poetic quality,

which reflect these roots.

Here's Tim Buckley with Lee Underwood on guitar,

Danny Thompson on bass and Carter Collins on conga drums.

The song, which is composed by Tim Buckley,

is called I'm Coming Home Again.

# It's a happy time inside my mind When a melody does find a rhyme

# And says to me, "I'm coming home to stay."

# Oh, comin' home to stay

# Well, now it's just the same old story

# Something about love for glory

# A nickel or a dime a dozen, fame

# Oh, it's such a shame

# The way they'll use your name

# Oh, it's only mine to sing a song

# Hoping that you'll cross along my way

# Before we have to move along

# Oh, have to move along

# We'll be back someday, yeah

# Oh, it's a happy time inside my mind

# When a melody does find a rhyme

# And says to me, "I'm coming home to stay."

# Oh, coming home to stay

# Coming home to stay

# So, sleep late, my lady friends

# Let the morning breeze blow through your hair

# Sleep late, my lady friends

# Let the morning sun warm your bed

# Sleep late, my lady friends

# Do-do, do-do-do

# Do-do, do-do-do do. #

He became a professional gospel singer at 14,

and graduated to Greenwich Village, where he taught himself the guitar.

He's here now for his first

television appearance in this country, to sing High Flying Bird.

# There's a high flyin' bird Flying way up in the sky

# And I wonder if she looks down As she goes on by?

# She's flying so free and easy in the sky

# Oh, Lord, look at me here

# I'm rooted like a tree here

# Got those sit-down, can't-cry Oh, Lord, I'm gonna die blues

# Die blues

# Now, the sun, it comes up and it lights up the day

# And when he gets tired, Lord, He goes on down his way

# To the east and to the west

# He meets God every day

# Lord, look at me here

# Hey, I'm rooted like a tree here

# Got those sit-down, can't-cry Oh, Lord, I'm gonna die blues

# Die blues

# Now, I had a woman Lord, she lived down by the mine

# She ain't never seen the sun Oh, Lord, never stopped crying

# Then, one day, my woman up and died

# Oh, Lord, she up and died now

# Hey, she just up and died

# Well, she wanted to fly And the only way to fly is

# Die, die, die, die, die

# There's a high flying bird Flying way up in the sky

# And I wonder if she looks down As she goes on by

# She's flying so free and easy in the sky

# Oh, Lord, look at me here

# Hey, I'm rooted like a tree here

# Got those sit-down, can't-cry Oh, Lord, I'm gonna die blues

# Got those sit-down, can't-cry Oh, Lord, I'm gonna die blues

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# Hey

# Hey

# Hey

# Yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah. #

APPLAUSE

And that's all from Late Night Line-Up tonight.

Tomorrow night, our guests will be Dennis Potter, the playwright,

and television reporter turned MP Geoffrey Johnson-Smith.

Goodnight.

# Keep on running

# Keep on hiding

# One fine day, I'm going to be the one to make you understand

# Oh, yeah, I'm gonna be your man. #